Johnson Christopher M, Geringer John M, Stewart Erin E
The University of Kansas, USA.
J Music Ther. 2003 Fall;40(3):178-88. doi: 10.1093/jmt/40.3.178.
The purpose of the two studies reported here was to investigate and describe information available about music therapy that is likely to be found on the Internet. The top 20 Internet search engines were surveyed using the term "Music Therapy." Information concerning the first 25 sites listed per engine was collected. The following categories of information were described: the frequency of mention across the search engine sites, the type of site, whether the site gave a definition of music therapy, the orientation of that definition, the number of links, orientation of links, and the number of hits shown on the main page. A rank order was then compiled of the 267 sites listed across all searches. Results showed that American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) web page was the most frequent and highest ranked site across the 20 search engine sites. Sites from educational institutions were frequent, as were commercial sites. Most of the highest ranked sites gave traditional definitions (as defined by AMTA) for music therapy and associated links were conventional as well. These procedures were replicated one year later, although the question "What is Music Therapy?" was used as the search term. Results from this second search revealed only 145 sites. Of those, American Music Therapy Association web page was again the most frequent and highest ranked site across the search engines. Sites from educational institutions were frequent, as were commercial sites, however, only half of the highest ranked sites gave traditional definitions for music therapy.
本文报道的两项研究旨在调查并描述可能在互联网上找到的有关音乐治疗的信息。使用“音乐治疗”一词对排名前20的互联网搜索引擎进行了调查。收集了每个搜索引擎列出的前25个网站的相关信息。描述了以下几类信息：搜索引擎网站提及的频率、网站类型、该网站是否给出了音乐治疗的定义、该定义的导向、链接数量、链接的导向以及主页上显示的点击量。然后对所有搜索中列出的267个网站进行了排名。结果显示，美国音乐治疗协会（AMTA）的网页是20个搜索引擎网站中出现频率最高且排名最高的网站。教育机构的网站很常见，商业网站也是如此。大多数排名靠前的网站给出了音乐治疗的传统定义（如AMTA所定义），相关链接也很常规。一年后重复了这些步骤，不过搜索词使用的是“什么是音乐治疗？”。第二次搜索的结果仅显示了145个网站。其中，美国音乐治疗协会的网页再次是搜索引擎中出现频率最高且排名最高的网站。教育机构的网站很常见，商业网站也是如此，然而，只有一半排名靠前的网站给出了音乐治疗的传统定义。
